Posted on: June 13, 2025

Anuj02

Games: 158 Reviews: 18

Mediocre at best

As of 2025, this game has not aged well, cover system shooting is boring, gunplay is bad, takedown has cutscenes animations idk why, story i cany say because i didnt finished it, gameplay is good though there are stealth, hacking or shooting options, however here shooting is a pain you will mostly die if you take that approach so consider guns useless basically.

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Posted on: March 20, 2023

jjavier

Verified owner

Games: 289 Reviews: 35

Best Immersive Sim of its time

The title of my review is more opinionated than I would like, but space constraints are a b**ch. I do think this is the best _immersive sim_ of its generation, but I fully admit didn't played all there's is out there from that time. I mean, e.g. Instead of combat you can use your stealth and hacking abilities to beat almost al bosses in the game. And I say almost 'cos I never tried with the first one, but I guessing you can do that too. If it is your play through, you may need to peep a guide of advice on how not to screw your character for a stealth run. The story is quite good but it will be less impactful for those who played the first game. DE:HR's story borrows some ideas from the original game. That helps to keep the same feeling, but limits the times you'll be surprised. And on top of that, being a prequel, the decision you must take at the very end of the game feel less weighty. I mean JC Denton is unavoidable. For those who plays the first Deus Ex, this game feels a lot like the first one with a little of streamlining applied. Just a little, it's no "Invisible War" (Deus ex 2 ). The streamlining materializes a comfort sometimes and as plain simplification of mechanics some others. Something has being lost at hand of please a wider audiences but the net result of it still is great.

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Posted on: August 24, 2024